Growing Your Own Vegetables and Herbs – Parsley, Lettuce and Onions

Parsley – can often be haphazard in germinating and often takes well over three weeks to pop their heads through the soil. Due to the risk of poor germination I much prefer to sow my parsley in trays in the greenhouse rather than directly outside in the soil. Lettuce – we now have such a wide range of colours, textures and form that makes the humble lettuce much more appealing and even worth growing on the edge of a flower border. Onions – there’s no doubt that onions sets are certainly a boon to growers, none of the hassle of sowing seed, waiting for the germination and then titivating them through their seedling stage until you are able to plant them out.